Liu Jian held a symposium and exchanged views with Qi Mengdao, President of the Global Industrial Furnace Division at Andritz Group.

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2026-08-18


8 month 12 On [date], Liu Jian, Chairman of the Group, and Qi Mengdao, Global President of Industrial Furnaces at Andritz Group, held a symposium at the Group’s headquarters to discuss new avenues for cooperation and forge a win-win future.

Huang Yongjian, Deputy General Manager of the Group, and Chen Yiyang, Senior Strategic Officer of Andritz Group, attended.

 

 

Liu Jian stated that HBIS Group is committed to high-end, intelligent, and green development, leveraging technological innovation to drive efficiency gains and product upgrades, continuously expanding the application scenarios for high‑end steel grades, and steadily strengthening its core competitiveness. HBIS Group and Andritz have established a deep, strategically trusted partnership in project construction, technical services, and other areas. Looking ahead, both parties are expected to build on their existing achievements, further deepen collaboration in areas such as technological support and cutting‑edge energy efficiency, and pursue even greater progress through mutually beneficial cooperation.

Qi Mengdao stated that Andritz Group continues to advance technological innovation and is committed to providing high‑quality, comprehensive services to support the high‑end transformation of steel enterprises. Andritz places great importance on its cooperation with HBIS Group, and the two sides enjoy a solid foundation of collaboration. Looking ahead, Andritz hopes to further strengthen communication and exchanges with HBIS, fully leverage its strengths in areas such as advanced equipment and intelligent manufacturing, and precisely align with HBIS’s needs for high‑end development, smart operations, and green practices. In doing so, Andritz aims to deliver even more robust technical solutions to HBIS and work together to elevate bilateral cooperation to a new level.

Group directors and relevant officials from Andritz Group’s China and Hebei regions attended.

 

The Theoretical Study Center Group of the Party Committee of Wugang Company, HBIS Group, organized a集中学习 session.

On September 2, Lu Jiangguang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Wugang Company under Hebei Iron and Steel Group, presided over a集中学习会 of the company’s Party Committee Theoretical Study Center Group. He emphasized the need to earnestly study and thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches and instructions, consolidate and expand the achievements of education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political performance, resolutely shoulder the mission and responsibilities of state-owned enterprises in the new era, and consciously integrate Wugang’s reform and development into the overall strategic framework of the Party and the country as well as the broader provincial development agenda. He called for advancing all work with an even more vigorous and proactive spirit.

Wugang Company’s project, “Development and Application of Key Technologies for High-Strength, Tough, Extra-Thick Steel Plates for Marine Equipment,” has been awarded the Special Prize of the 2026 Metallurgical Science and Technology Award.

Recently, the results of the 2026 Metallurgical Science and Technology Awards were announced. The project “Development and Application of Key Technologies for High-Strength, Tough, Extra-Thick Steel Plates for Marine Equipment,” jointly submitted by Wugang Company and Northeastern University, was awarded the Grand Prize, marking a major breakthrough for China in the field of critical materials for marine engineering. After ten years of intensive research and sustained efforts, the project has successfully overcome the challenges in producing high-strength, tough, extra-thick steel plates—materials essential for building such national strategic assets as ultra-large deepwater drilling platforms, massive wind‑farm installation vessels, and 10,000‑meter‑class submersibles.

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Lu Jiangguang, Party Secretary and Chairman of Wugang Company under Hebei Iron and Steel Group, led a delegation on a visit to a leading client in the chemical and energy engineering design sector.

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